The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-04
THINGS HEARD AND SEEN.

A medical student from the southern part of
the State. who is attending q course OF clinics
here makes his headquarters at South-side
physicians Office. where he has access to a we'll
selected library and has opportunities for pick
ing up little practical knowledge Recently
the doctor had the misfortune 10 lose one of his
patients by DEATH and on entering his Office the
morning after that event, he was a little
plussed By hearing the student remark: Mr..
- died last night. and the undertaken called
young evidently had in mind the slang
phrase: Passing in his checks" as applied in
some of the wild West stories, and thought they
had been passed to the doctor.
Medical students. as a rule. are a pranksh lot
of fellows, and are at their best when engaged
in dissecting a subject in the presence of a num-
Der of visitors. At one of the city colleges last
week, while class busy auatomizing the
body of q colored pauper a visitor made himaelf
obnoxious by his Inconsistencies To get even
with him one of the students cut off and
surreptitously placed it in the visitors pocket.
A few minutes later the bell signaled the close
of the evenings work, and the victim of the
joke put his hand in mis- pocket for his gloves, he
grasDed. instead the cold. clammv of the
subject he had been watching With look of
horror. he hui4. it on the Gissecting-table and
broke for the door, amid the laugh tsr of the
class.
Linn Atkinson. resident of the southeast
dogs. He keeps three of them, and In lieu of
better quarters allows them to use the second
story of his stable a sleeping place This is
reached by a stairway of easy ascent One
evening last week. just about dusk, the driver
OF feed store wagon, who Ia in the habit of
penishing the corn and oatsbins. started mp the
stairs with bag OF horse feed on his shoulders.
and as his eyes came . level with the floor
ne Was startled by seeing six fiery eyeballs ear-
Ing at him through the darkness. He didn't wait
to investigate, but dropped his BAG, and with one
bound reached the ground. and with another
grasped the reins of his horse and was soon out
of sight He hasn't been seen in the neighbpr-
hood since.
A cynical old bachelor recently unbosomed
himself to the reporter in this way: "a young
man who prides himself Oh being an irresistible
iady-killer and who thinks tina. every young
girl who looks and smiles at him is in love with
him. mas patented new idea, which he is now
working for all there is in it, and will continue
TO DO SO If the newspapers, which unwilling
aceompllces, do not take stringent measures to
suppress him. His scheme is TO carefully ex-
anime the Personal and Society columns of the
papers each day and make note of the young Ia
oies from distance who visiting houses
where he has the entree He then HES himself
to newspaper Office gets permission to look at
the EXCHANGES, from which he selects those that
suit his purpose and secures the consent of the
editor 60 carry them away In his leisure min
utes he reads them over, advertisements and
az, and IN this way becomes acquainted with
the names OF the streets. persons and events
happening in the place from which the young
lady comes. When he makes his call where she
is temporarily stopping he is able to produce. by
his previous preparation, favorable impression
in talking on matters which have q home inter-
est to his listener, and thus fondly imagines
that ne has made another conquest Sometimes
be varies his system by getting the young lady
to talk about her home. and then, oppor-
tune time, casually produces from his pocket
copy of her favorIte local paper. Verify. the de-
vices of the young man for getting into the good
graces OF the young woman are many"